Sentences with phrase «tactical voting which»

In 2010, patterns of tactical voting which had built up over twenty years helped both parties retain enough marginals to deny David Cameron a majority.

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Separating such a vote into two can lead to dependence on the ordering of the two votes if the result of the first vote is announced before the second (which could lead to tactical choices by the organizers), or to the possibility of very unappealing pairs of choices winning if the first result is kept secret.

And in Scotland, which has a greater tradition of tactical voting, the likelihood is that proportion will be much higher — especially if groups like Scotland's Big Voice have an impact.

The problem for Clegg is that this almost certainly depended on tactical voting, which was a major factor in the Liberal Democrats» original 1997 victory in Hallam.

Days later he pulled the plug on the Commons vote and won an important tactical battle which left the PM embarrassed and weakened for a time.

If anti-Conservative tactical voting takes place then this has the potential to reduce the Conservatives working majority to 73 seats which I am sure Theresa May would still be very happy with!

That's why Dr. Roger Mortimore from Ipsos MORI has said: «Under AV there is a real incentive for tactical voting, because the order in which candidates are eliminated affects the result».

The third change is the tempering of an «anyone but the Tories» mood which fuelled tactical voting at the last three elections.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

Because 30 % of those polled by ORB in May said they were considering a tactical vote to stop a hard Brexit — which might, variously, mean voting for a Labour candidate who opposed it, a Green or a Lib Dem.

Moving on there were some interesting bits of data about tactical voting, particularly in the first Populus poll, back in November 2004, which was conducted in 160 Conservative target seats and included some questions on tactical voting behaviour.

This tactical voting also took place in Lib / Con marginals which may have had the ironic effect of letting the Tories win.

Then, in 2020, there could be dozens of seats in which the «wasted vote» argument for sticking to the two big parties won't apply, and tactical voting could help Ukip and the Greens.

It is purely the hard work of the Lib Dems locally which enables this degree of tactical voting to persist at the present time.

Both campaigns furthermore expended an awful amount of tactical effort chasgin the second preferences of other candidates; indeed, the media speculation which way these votes would go was endless.

This is a somewhat artifical question of course, in real life people can and do vote for parties other than the main two, but provides a useful pointer as to which direction tactical voting might work in come the next general election.

For example, instead of expressing their genuine order of preferences, tactical voters will re-order their votes so as to try to achieve the early elimination of candidates the second preferences of which are likely to go to their favoured candidate and to keep in candidates whose voters are unlikely to have expressed second preferences.